City residents were not happy on Monday when the forecast of heavy rain in the evening resulted in… nothing. The streets stayed dry and city residents rushed home for nothing.
After a massive Monday mistake in his predictions, Hydro and Agro Informatics Institute director Royal Jitradon, who predicted the huge storms that never arrived on Monday, said yesterday that he would discontinue making weather forecasts because unusual changes in weather patterns make it difficult to forecast accurately, according to Thai PBS.
Royal admitted he made a mistake when he predicted torrential rains on Monday night in Bangkok and advised residents to get home before 6pm.
His prediction caused an uproar in local news and on social media. City residents immediately took to their phones: making plans, canceling plans and trying to sneak out of work early to avoid the rain.
However, it didn’t rain in Bangkok on Monday night at all, leaving many city residents thinking “WTF?”
Royal had predicted Monday that rain clouds over Chanthaburi would drift over Rayong and to Bangkok, bringing rain with them. Instead those clouds changed direction and created storms in Nakhon Pathom and Kanchanaburi.
About future storms, he directed the media to ask the Meteorological Department. About the cyclone in the Indian Ocean that could hit Myanmar and affect Thailand, he told reporters to ask the weatherman.
It looks like we have gotten a royal brush-off.
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